The person accused of slashing the throat of a DePaul College alum close to the college’s Lincoln Park campus six years in the past and carjacking a girl within the neighborhood days earlier is heading again to jail for a very long time.
On Friday, Decide Steven Watkins handed 38-year-old Adam Bramwell a 45-year jail sentence, in line with courtroom information.
Bramwell was a four-time convicted felon who went AWOL after being paroled in a gun case 4 months earlier than the crime spree. He was nonetheless thought-about a parole “absconder” when, on July 13, 2019, Bramwell adopted a 56-year-old girl into her storage within the 1800 block of North Fremont Road.
Wielding a knife, he pressured her to shut the storage door and hand over cash and different gadgets, prosecutors mentioned. They mentioned the lady tried to flee, however he caught her, tore her clothes, threw her to the bottom, and choked her earlier than stealing her Honda Match.
5 days later, at 3:30 a.m. on July 18, a passerby discovered a latest DePaul College graduate unresponsive and bleeding from her neck within the 2300 block of North Halsted.
Prosecutors mentioned Bramwell had parked a stolen SUV close by and waited for the 22-year-old to stroll previous him. As she did, he dragged her into an alley, held a knife to her throat, and tried to shove her into the stolen automotive, officers claimed.
Like the sooner sufferer, she fought again. However Bramwell slashed her repeatedly. Prosecutors mentioned he additionally tore out chunks of her hair earlier than attempting to run her over with the automobile.
The passerby discovered the sufferer about 50 toes from the place the assault occurred. Prosecutors mentioned she lay there about quarter-hour earlier than being discovered. Officers mentioned the lady misplaced almost half of her blood. She was hospitalized for a month, suffered two strokes alongside the way in which, and underwent a number of surgical procedures.
Whereas Chicago police speculated on the time that the incident could have been sexually motivated, the lady was not sexually assaulted, and Bramwell was by no means charged with intercourse crimes within the case.
Shortly after the assault, police discovered the SUV and the hijacked Honda Match burned out elsewhere within the metropolis.
Authorities additionally linked Bramwell to a different tried carjacking of a girl on July 8, 2019. That sufferer managed to lock her doorways in time to foil the assault.
CPD rapidly launched surveillance video of the attacker and recognized Bramwell as their prime suspect. United States Marshals took Bramwell into custody about three weeks later after receiving a tip that he was driving a passenger bus north of Houston.
Now, all of these circumstances have been resolved with a set of plea agreements.
On July 18, the sixth anniversary of the DePaul assault, Bramwell pleaded responsible to tried homicide, tried aggravated kidnapping with bodily hurt, and a number of counts of aggravated battery. Decide Steven Watkins sentenced him on Friday to 25 years for the tried homicide with 20 consecutive years for the kidnapping cost. Watkins handed down a 10-year concurrent sentence for the battery prices.
Watkins additionally sentenced him to seven years for arson on Friday. In April, the choose handed him 12 years for aggravated vehicular hijacking and kidnapping for the Fremont Road assault. These sentences might be served concurrently.
Along with the gun case Bramwell was on parole for on the time of the crime spree, he acquired three concurrent jail phrases in 2012: six years for residential housebreaking, six years for theft, and three years for home battery inflicting bodily hurt.
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